Only problem with dragons not being included in the pay off would be people just using drags and leaving the game before they lost. Would suck losing a dragon like that though.

Looks like all of the Dragon changes are making it in tonight`s patch 1.1.0.

We are making Dragons resurectable (like heroes), but at the same time really hard to heal (very pricy). So yes - player would be able to leave the game without loosing his Dragon (only in situation with Army consisting of 1 to 4 Dragons), however - it will cost him roughly 300-500 gold to heal one Dragon in NPC town, or a trip back to his home town and 8-10 minutes to heal the Dragon.

As for the other player in the battle against the Dragons - there is always the influence reward. We are adding additional checks in game to make sure this system can`t be abused.

I'm actually waiting for patch to even log in my elf account,else I'm scared my haunter dragon might get attacked by someone and get lost .Got like no space in the city lol so no choice for the poor drag except to leave him outside